RE: topflite spitfire retracts
Thanks rustypep.
In your picture it's obvious the struts splay a bit and are short of being perpendicular to the wing. A picture is worth a thousand words.
Here is a pic of my H9 after I the MODIFIED lado's. They weren't capable of being altered internally to get any more extension that I got, but they're a whole lot better than stock. The airplane has pretty decent ground handling while the landing impacts go straighter into the mechanical parts.
(FYI, the gear doors in the pic have been temporarily taped directly to the struts. That's definitely temporary as the gear won't close with them that close to the struts.)